Author's Thanks: Credit goes to Subject to Change for the theme "Survival".
Rorschach's Journal March 6th 1983
This place is full of disease. The reward for sex and shared needles.
Girls with rouge-smeared cheeks line the streets waiting to sell themselves to get their fix. Men make quick glances at one another in passing from bar to bar. Remembering the face for the moment they find a quiet corner.
And so they infect each other for their pleasures and addictions. Does not matter who is hurt along the way. As long as they get their fix, their lust, their need slated.
Find them clogging the streets like dead rats clogging sewers. Group of them sit outside in alley behind apartment, just before streetlamps come on. Just as I put on my face and enter the belly of the underworld.
Found another one dead outback after coming back to apartment today. Overdose. Not surprised. Young woman. Early twenties. Pupils dilated and arm scarred and swollen from injection. Drugs probably spiked with something. Remember seeing her with group before leaving to investigate a series of murders in Queens.
Didn't have time to scare them home. Now she lies dead in a back alley, surrounded by drains, trash and graffiti, lying in her own waste and still holding the needle that killed her.
And tomorrow those same people who were with her will head out into the early twilight and search for a new place to shoot up, a new place to leave a friend dead. They will survive off their addiction, until their addiction proves to be the death of them.
Or until I find them and hand them back her needle.
Wouldn't want to waste it.
Author's Ramble: Thanks again to everyone who has/is review(ing). If you want to suggest a theme, please take my poll in my profile. If you have a new idea, please leave a review or note me! Thanks for reading!
(Creepingshadows - I saw your review. I have my own DeviantART account and if I choose to post them there I'd prefer to use my own. But I have no problems with you drawing fanart for my story. I'd be honored. =D)